Edith Sitwell Quotes

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Death
  • Brother

• Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Sometimes

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • People
  • Energy
  • Die

• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Personality

• I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Running
  • Hand

• Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Business
  • High
  • Value

• Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• I AM NOTHING.Nothing but a pale shape.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

  

  Kiran Desai

• A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • World
  • Wine

• It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the 'dark horse' in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Dark

• If you’re a serious actor, you wouldn’t put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • Up
  • Serious

• I still feel like I'm 15 sometimes and then other times, I'm wanting to feel comfortable in my body and my skin.

  

  Selena Gomez

• He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• Princes that would their people should do wellMust at themselves begin, as at the head;For men, by their example, pattern outTheir imitations, and regard of laws:A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

  

  Prince
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• I'm a big Gorillaz fan.

  

  Kali Uchis

• It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.

  

  Jose Ferreira

• The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.

  

  Edwin Conklin
  • Dictionary
  • Probability
  • Printing

• I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

  

  Edith Sitwell